Re: Local filesharing

On Jun 2, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Ryan Schiffbauer wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good way of sharing files on a local network?
>
> I use the pseudo-Windows-filesharing program called Samba now, but I 
> would like to avoid it in favor an all-Linux approach. I have 
> considered NFS, but I read that it's quite insecure.
>
> I'm running Kubuntu 5.04. My aim is to be able to use my two calendar 
> programs on two separate machines on the local network to share one 
> calendar file. So I don't just want to be able to transfer files, I 
> need to share them (using a mount, presumably.)
>
> What do you guys(/gals?) use as a preferred way of sharing files 
> locally that isn't insecure? Any recommendations?

Look up "linux network filesystems."  Anything insecure can become 
secure if you spend a little while to throw IPSec at it.

Of course, you say you're on a local network.  Is it (physically) 
accessible to anybody else?  This might be heresy but some things don't 
need to be secure :-)

In a homogenous network of my own design, I'd use NFS (mature, although 
in the past it's been a little flaky on Linux) over IPSec.  Because I'm 
usually coexisting with other operating systems, I tend to use Samba in 
real life.  And if you're running it on two Linux machines, that's an 
all-free-software approach.  There's no Microsoft in Samba.

-- 
Daniel Harris